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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Eggenfelden (City Council of Eggenfelden) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light teal border frames the note on all sides, with large Gothic numeral '1' on ornamental scroll cartouches at left and right, the word 'MARK' inscribed diagonally above each. The central vignette, set within an arched panel, presents a silhouette cityscape of Eggenfelden rendered in stark black against a cream ground, with the spire of the parish church of St. Nikolaus rising prominently among the town's roofline, reflected in water below. Below the vignette, a two-line validity notice and the issuing authority 'Stadtrat Eggenfelden' appear above two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The note is printed on a warm buff ground with the same ornamental border scheme as the obverse, carrying large Gothic numeral '1' on scroll cartouches at either side with 'MARK' above each. The central oval vignette, executed in a bold illustrative style by K. Olshausen-Schönberger, shows a recumbent Bavarian lion holding a rifle in its jaws, set against a blue-and-white lozenge background referencing the Bavarian state colours. A bold Gothic inscription below the vignette reads 'RUHE & ORDNUNG!'. |
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Eggenfelden is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920–1921, its city council was forced into issuing emergency small-denomination paper — Kleingeldscheine — because postwar coin shortages had made ordinary transactions nearly impossible. The Reichsbank had no practical mechanism to supply every minor municipality, so local councils, savings banks, and even individual businesses printed their own.
K. Olshausen-Schönberger was a Munich-based graphic artist associated with the Jugendstil movement, and her involvement here is the one genuinely distinctive thing about this note — her design work lifts it well above the typical hastily typeset municipal scrip of the period.